20-word Challenge 6

The BARONET was getting old. He knew this to be true when his only reaction to the letter was "Damned SMART ALECK." He crumpled the CORRESPONDENCE and threw it at the trash BIN with the greatest fury he could muster.

He missed.

Moments like this made him feel like a WADING BIRD in QUICKSAND. He needed to find a way out, but only seemed to be digging himself deeper. And his time was growing short. He needed to RECTIFY this situation with great CELERITY.

His rise from a common man fighting the evi...